Morris Sheppard

John Morris Sheppard (28 May 1875-9 April 1941) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-TX 4) from 15 November 1902 to 4 March 1903 (succeeding John Levi Sheppard and preceding Choice B. Randell) and from TX 1 from 4 March 1903 to 3 February 1913 (succeeding Thomas Henry Ball and preceding Horace Worth Vaughan. He also served as a US Senator from 3 February 1913 to 9 April 1941, succeeding Rienzi Melville Johnston and preceding Andrew Jackson Houston.

Biography
John Morris Sheppard was born in Morris County, Texas in 1875, the son of Congressman John Levi Sheppard and a maternal descendant of American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris. In 1898, he became a lawyer in Texarkana, and he was elected to succeed his late father in the US House of Representatives in 1902. He served in the House from 1902 to 1913, and then in the US Senate from 1913 to 1941. He supported progressive reform legislation such as rural credit programs, child labor laws, antitrust laws, and women's suffrage, but he supported the maintenance of segregation in public facilities and the disenfranchisement of African-Americans. He also authored the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) and many of the laws leading up to it, being nicknamed "the father of national Prohibition". He died in office in 1941.